Together, the combination of a meta-model for the Ocean Food Web, a system dynamics model for the social-economic system and a custom-designed graphical user interface based on ExtendSim® make the OC-DSS a powerful and generic tool for the evaluation and demonstration of policy alternatives under different climate and social-economic conditions. The OC-DSS is mainly intended for policymakers rather than the marine industry. Four types of use are envisaged for the instrument:

• demonstration of the impacts of climate change and human-induced stressors such as ocean acidification and overfishing on of key environmental and social-economic indicators
• evaluation, comparison and ranking of policy alternatives to mitigate these changes
• support exchanges and discussions between natural and social scientists who collaborate in the domain of climate change, the coastal environment, and coastal economy
• applications with similar objectives, but for new case studies, not included in OCEAN-CERTAIN or in different problem contexts (generic use)

We presented this poster at the final meeting in Brussels in October 2017 and it has all the requisite research findings – coupled with graphics that make it easy to understand the cliffnotes of how important the Biological Pump in fact is.

On October 31st 2017, it was the final day of the Ocean Certain project. This website will be kept live, with access to articles, deliverables and reports available to all. If you have any questions about the project, feel free to contact rachel.tiller@sintef.no

On 11-12th July 2017, the Chemistry group held a meeting at NTNU, where Scientific Manager Murat Ardelan, Nicolas Sanchez, Oystein Leiknes and Mark Hopwood from GEOMAR met to discuss the chemistry part of Ocean Certain. The Chemistry group has had regular in the projects final stages.

The MARE conference topic of 2017 was Dealing with Maritime Mobilities and took place in Amsterdam July 5th-7th. Operational Manager and WP3 participant Rachel Tiller from SINTEF Ocean/NTNU participated with a presentation from Ocean Certain on results of the stakeholder workshops in Norway. The title of her presentation was “Adapting to the Unknown”, part of the […]

AMEMR17_OC_Barents_poster_SvL CEFAS – our partner in the UK – recently attended the AMEMR (Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research) conference in Plymouth, UK. http://www.amemr.com/ The conference is organised every 3 years by Plymouth Marine Lab, and the CEFAS poster was about OC modelling of the Barents Sea and the associated microcosm results.

Operational manager of Ocean Certain, Rachel Tiller, was invited as one of three researchers, to participate at a UNAI-ISA Forum to discuss the ongoing process towards a new Treaty under UNCLOS, looking at Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). The UN has been working on this issue for 10 years, starting with the Working […]